Nonsense.
What’s the alternative?
We shoot chickens with shotguns, like ducks? Reason I used to head shoot sitting ducks with a .22 - very unsportsmanlike, I know, but I was killing my food in the most efficient and humane way, not engaging in some ridiculous concept of sport where the aim was to get the bag limit in the least efficient way - is that at least that way I (a) made sure I killed it, which is more than a lot of people using shotguns on the wing do and (b) avoided crunching down on shot when eating it. One shot, one duck, one clean carcass, one meal, no unrecovered wounded animals flopping around like the real sporting hunters cause. If you think shooting sitting ducks is unsporting, would you be happier with hunters going into battery farms and shooting caged chickens?
Actually, no reason that shouldn’t happen. It’s the next step after game farms, for people with guns who can’t even hit anything on a game farm.
Where do you suggest I go to shoot a cow? We don’t have wild ones here. The farmers get real shitty when you shoot their cows. I know, because we used to have a farm and one thing that really pissed us off was humorists with guns shooting our cows through the udder. Big laugh, that. Also, I’ve killed (i.e. cut the throats and bled them) and dressed sheep carcasses but I’ve never tried a cow and I think it might be beyond me. Also a slight problem with eating all that meat, or freezing it. Personally, I like my beef hung for the ideal 42 days and then eaten.
We do have wild pigs here. I’ve sent quite a few to pig heaven. If you’d ever skinned and dressed one of them and seen the parasites, you’d know why I wouldn’t eat wild pig in a fit. The pig farmers are also a bit sensitive about people shooting their pigs, so that’s ruled out.
Same problem with sheep. And turkeys. And so on.
As for getting others to do the dirty work, ever been in abbatoir and seen how a killing line works? Very efficient, about as humane as can be managed. Not like morons with guns drilling animals again and again, and leaving wounded animals around in pain. Or, a level down from those hunters, check out the abbatoirs in the Middle East where they hock the cattle (slash the hamstring) first, then get stuck into them with their knives. Real charming.
I guarantee the wild animal has a much better chance then the cow being lead into the slaughter house and at least it lived free before it became someone’s dinner…but were way off topic now…
If animals are going to be killed for food, it should be done as quickly and humanely as possible. Abbatoirs do that. Many so-called hunters don’t. Many so-called hunters don’t eat what they kill, either because they kill more than they can eat or they gut shoot them or otherwise damage the beast. Again, not what happens in abbatoirs.
And just for the record, not only do I eat poultry, beef, lamb and pork, I also eat fish and I fish.
I do, however, try to limit my vegetable intake, unless they’re fried.